Azorella exigua (Hook.f.) Drude

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Name scientific

Azorella exigua (Hook.f.) Drude in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 132 (1897)

Preferred name

Azorella exigua (Hook.f.) Drude

Taxonomy reference

Plunkett, G.M; Nicolas, A.N. 2017: Assessing Azorella (Apiaceae) and its allies: Phylogenetics and a new classification. Brittonia 69(1): 31–61. [First Online: 15 September 2016]

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Drude

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) Drude

Publication place

Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien.

Year published

1897

Publication page

132

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Azorella exigua

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Apiales

Family

Umbelliferae

Genus

Azorella

Species

exigua

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Schizeilema exiguum (Hook.f.) Domin

Description

Minute plant with stout, very sparingly branched to unbranched rhizomes up to c. 2 cm. long, forming patches up to c. 5 cm. diam. Lvs crowded, on rather stout petioles up to ± 1 cm. long. Lamina 2-4-(5) mm. diam., suborbicular to broad-ovate, truncate to subcordate at base, coriac., entire to very obscurely 3-5-lobed or crenulate; margins slightly recurved. Stipules obsolescent. Umbels on rather stout peduncles < 1 cm. long; involucral bracts linear-oblong. Fls minute, 3-8 per umbel; calyx-teeth minute, unequal, acute. Fr. subtetragonous, 2-2.5 mm. long; mericarps obscurely 5-ribbed, rounded on dorsal margin.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.